What led up to all of that, yeah. [His tail shifts to instead curl around his hand in turn, tight but not intending to cut off circulation or anything like that.]

Long story short is that I used to be an Overlord, myself, someone that dealt in souls and was considered one of the most powerful people in our slice of the Pride ring. Only people above us was Lucifer and his daughter, technically. [Yeah, he said that right and he's shifting a little to get more comfortable where he's at.]

I was called the Gambling Overlord, ran casinos and the like, the house always won. I... enjoyed my time doing all that shit until I ran into a streak of losing and when you deal in souls as a gambler, the stakes are pretty high. And when an Overlord is actively losing what's considered their strength, the whole ring has their eyes on you.